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In the comments on yesterday's AppleTV story, many people doubted whether 1080p support in the third-generation AppleTV will be very useful. That question becomes even more relevant when observing the file sizes of 720p vs 1080p versions of the same movies and TV shows in the iTunes Store: despite the fact that 1920x1080 means 2.25 times as many pixels as 1280x720, file sizes often differ by a factor of 1.5 or less.

A weekly show about geeky cultural topics in numerous media, including books, movies, TV, comics, and games. Jason Snell talks with a rotating panel of regular guests including John Siracusa, Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman, Serenity Caldwell, and Scott McNulty. We close the books on the first Incomparable Film Festival with this special follow-up episode.

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Architecture student André Ford has proposed a new system for the mass production of chicken that removes the birds' cerebral cortex so that they don't experience the horrors of being packed together tightly in vertical farms. Each year, the United Kingdom raises and kills around 800 million broiler chickens for their meat.

February 14, 2012 at 3:12 pm PT Sony says it's sorry it raised prices on two Whitney Houston albums at Apple's UK iTunes store, the day after the singer's death. On Sunday, Sony pushed through wholesale price changes that moved the retail price of Houston's "The Ultimate Collection" from 4.99 pounds to 7.99, and "Whitney - The Greatest Hits" from 7.99 pounds to 9.99.

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February 14, 2012 at 6:00 am PT While AllThingsD.com is known for scooping various and sundry internal memos from Internet giants, this is perhaps the most pleasing to post. It's a graphic visualization that our social media editor Drake Martinet did for his beloved, Stacy Green, who is the VP of marketing and communications over at Mashable.

Is it possible for one person to love more than another? In an attempt to find out, filmmaker Brent Hoff teamed with Stanford University neuroscientists to test lovers' abilities, using an fMRI to monitor brain activity and measure whose adoration was the strongest.

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At the stroke of noon Tuesday, music will blast out over the shoppers in Union Square and the homeless people in Hallidie Plaza. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will chime in from the City Hall rotunda, along with the big-hatted belters from Beach Blanket Babylon.

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So, tonight, for our nation: Death in the family. Once again, the horror unfolding before our eyes. But the fire this time came not from the quest for revenge from the point of a gun or a bomb, but from the quest for knowledge: the point of knowing what’s out there, and what we can do there in space.

"English spelling is a terrible mess," writes Anne Trubek in "Use Your Own Words." I couldn't agree more. As a copy editor at Wired, one small but highly visible aspect of my job is to ensure that each of the tens of thousands of words in a typical issue of the magazine is spelled correctly.

Turning technology from mumbo-jumbo into rich tasty gumbo The name is different now, but the friendships are the same. I had a non-stop great time at Macworld | iWorld, the new name for the 27-year-old trade show. Late January is a quiet time of year in San Francisco, which can be a beautiful city, and felt like it this time around.

Every single one of the candidates currently running for the Republican nomination is a walking disaster. But one of them, Texas congressman Ron Paul, seems to be getting a disturbing amount of support from liberals. Mostly that's because his nut-job libertarian views happen to not sound so nutty on a handful of issues.

“For a quarter of a century, Washington and Wall Street have wanted China to become an integral part of the world economy. Their wish has been granted, and now it’s time to come to grips with the implications.”—Jeffrey Garten, Yale, June 2002 (BusinessWeek) Ten years after those words were written we still find ourselves wringing our hands over how much American prosperity is derived from Chinese manufacturing.

This has been an interesting few years for the book industry. There have been many changes and realignments, and these changes have led many to predict that a) reading is dead; b) books are dead; c) publishing is dead; d) all printed matter is dead.

The Math ProblemSabermetrics can help teams identify hidden talent and turn regular sports fans into math nerds. But can the numbers lie?By Jonah Lehrer on June 27, 2011Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty ImagesBuying a car is a hard decision. There are just so many variables to think about.